Question: who is Clyde Gates? Answer: He’s the Jets’ fourth?…fifth?…sixth?…string wide receiver who left Monday night’s game with a shoulder injury and didn’t return. In fact, Gates was so far down the list of options that he was nearly cut before injuries devastated the receiving corps. What? You mean you didn’t know that about Clyde [...]
Plaxico Burress
By Dennis Agapito and Ron Pickett – (Link Defense) (Link Special Teams) Teams are allowed to carry 90 players into training camp but only 53 make the final roster. They will fill the eight member practice squad with developmental or emergency call-up players. Any candidate for the practice squad will have to clear waivers first [...]
Just a tidbit from Jets reading today: former Jet receiver Plaxico Burress told WFAN in an interview on Monday that quarterback Mark Sanchez was hampered by a shoulder injury last season that a lot of people didn’t know about. “He definitely has enough arm,” Burress said of Sanchez. “He was battling some injuries last year, [...]
On the ESPN Philadelphia radio station yesterday, wide receiver Plaxico Burress was actively campaigning to join the Philadelphia Eagles next season. As a guest on the Brian Baldinger & Harry Mayes Show, Burress said “nothing would make me happier” than joining the Eagles. When speaking about his old friend, Michael Vick, he said, “I really [...]
Well it looks like as soon as the divorce with Plaxico is finalized and he signs with the Eagles, the Jets are looking to hook back up with ex-49er wide receiver Braylon Edwards who was the Jets deep threat in 2009 and 2010. He was cut by the 49ers in 2011 due to injury and [...]
